Legal Opinion
Quackenbush v. Allstate Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 10, 1996No. 95-244PublishedCited by 2,059 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
In this case, we consider whether an abstention-based remand order is appealable as a final order under 28 U. S. C. § 1291, and whether the abstention doctrine first recognized in Burford v. Sun Oil Co., 319 U. S. 315 (1943), can be applied in a common-law suit for damages.
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Petitioner, the Insurance Commissioner for the State of California, was appointed trustee over the assets of the Mission Insurance Company and its affiliates (Mission companies) in 1987, after those companies were ordered into liquidation by a California court. In an effort to gather the assets of the defunct Mission…
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